2)
Briefly
describe his "comparative" approach. What is he trying to show?

2a) Be sure to write down and think about the
last sentence of the major section that concludes on pg. 134.

Fertile
Crescent

3)
What
is the advantage of a Mediterranean climate?

4) What were
the advantages of the F.C.'s natural cereal flora?

5) How does
the F.C.'s wheat and barley stack up against the New World's
corn?

6)List the other areas of the
world that had Mediterranean climates.

7)
What
were the 5 advantages that the F.C's Mediterranean climate had over other areas
with a similar environment?

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8) What's
"ethnobiology"?

9) Does
Diamond think that it is possible that hunters and gatherers who never made the
transition to agriculture (or did so slowly through shifting agriculture) were
just not aware of the agricultural potential of their natural environment?

10) What is
the "critical" fact mentioned on pg. 147.

11) OK,
write a single paragraph that starts with this topic sentence:

"When
compared to the natural suite of the Fertile Crescent's biological organisms,
both the New Guinea and eastern North America possessed some decisive
disadvantages in their suites of domesticable plants
and animals." . . .

We are not reading the next chapter. It deals with a similar dynamic,
but focuses on animals instead of plants. Using your intuitive prowess,
guess the thesis of Chapter 9. You can find help on pg. 131-2.